Chapter 8: Change of family and break the village
Zoumazhai is located in the mountains of Baijiling.
It's not deep mountains, it's just mountains.
Because it is difficult to ride and drive too deep, it will make it difficult for bandits to go out to rob and transport supplies. Therefore, most copycats do not choose places with very inconvenient transportation.
Zouma Village is a standard small village, enclosing land into a village, building a simple village wall with stone and wood, and gathering dozens of bandits to rob the house.
The village is naturally different from ordinary villages. They do not need any labor tools or related production facilities. Simply put,... the village does not farm, does not produce, and does not do small business; they only need places to eat and sleep, as well as warehouses for placing horses, weapons, and grain storage, so they do not occupy a large area.
After almost all the supplies in the village were used, they went out to grab them; when women were short of them, they also went out to grab them. Most of the women were caught and killed after being ruined for a few days, and some of them committed suicide on the same day. This is common. Anyway, the bodies were thrown into the mountains by them, and they were gnawed by wild animals in half a day.
Zouma Village is not just an invasion of Nanyuan Village. After all, there are more than fifty bandits in the village, which is equivalent to more than fifty old men who only know how to eat, drink, defecate and urinate but do not create any wealth. They cannot afford to support a small Nanyuan Village. There are three other villages in this Baijiling area, which are different from each other, and are often bullied by them. However, because Nanyuan Village is closest to it, the invasion is the most serious.
The reason why this Zouma Village is so rampant is diverse.
First, they specially chose a land area where the government does not care about, which is very smart.
Although the court during the Yongtai period was not very dark, there were no so many officials who loved the people as much as their children and hated evil. In places like the officialdom where "nothing business can be ignored, no one would take the initiative to care about things that were not clear within their jurisdiction... Because of this kind of thing, if done well, no one would say hello, but if done poorly, it would affect the career of the officialdom.
Secondly, when Zoumazhai goes out to rob women of money and grain, it also has a certain degree of "property". They know very well what the bottom line of the people is, because most of them are originally gangsters and bullies in nearby villages. They understand that as long as you don't kill too much at once, grab too much, and give the people a period of time to slow down after each robbery, these villagers will not be able to resist.
Occasionally, one or two families go out to report to officials, but they can't cause any trouble. The villagers in the mountains cannot afford to hire a lawyer, and they can't write a lawsuit. They go to the yamen to knock on the wronged drum. No matter whether there is an injustice or not, they will be beaten forty first. Most people will be beaten to death before they even file a lawsuit.
If it was even more extreme, snatched the family's daughter-in-law and daughter, killed the husband, elderly and children, and broke the family, and no one would sue it.
Can the neighbor next door risk his life to complain for you? It's impossible.
This is human nature. As long as you are still alive and the fire does not burn on yourself, you can tolerate some things.
Therefore, today, the people in Zuoma Village will not really drive away all the villagers of Nanyuan Village. They dare not. If they really want to do this, the government will have to move even if they don’t want to.
They just wanted to scare these villagers, and used the excuse of Wang's rescued by Sun Yixie yesterday to steal more things, and then kill a few birds who were interested in resisting, and "remind" these villagers, which was a way to kill the chicken and warn the monkeys.
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Just like yesterday, before the end of time, the village leader Ma Si ordered his troops and was ready to go.
It is not difficult to see from the previous text that the village leader Ma Si is also a figure.
Although he cannot be said to be extremely intelligent, he is also somewhat intelligent. The Zouma Village can be rampant here for many years, all relying on his plan. Otherwise, the gangsters below would have been dismissed long ago.
In terms of martial arts, Ma Si also had a skill. When he was a teenager, he learned "Huizhou Hundred-Kilometre Knife Zhao Bozhao" and learned sword skills for a full ten years, and learned all the true teachings of Zhao Bozhao. But his master never expected that the four-person faces and beastly hearts had long been greedy for the beauty of the Zhao family's daughter. One night, Ma Si sneaked into the lady's boudoir and failed to commit traitors. He was so angry that he killed him. After that, he did not do anything, and attacked him at night, killing all the master's family of eight. He burned all the evidence and fled overnight with the softness of the Zhao family. After that, he committed many cases in various places, until he came to Baijiling a few years ago, pulled up the mountain and became the mountain king.
After entering the village, the bandits of Zouma Village also learned a move and a half-stage from Ma Si, so they basically used swords. The combat power of these people... is similar to Huang Donglai's estimate, not very strong, but they are definitely stronger than ordinary people who have never practiced martial arts at all.
In this way, more than forty bandits and twenty horses set out toward Nanyuan Village.
Why aren't everyone riding horses? Because it's too expensive to get every bandit to get a horse... The horses that can make you ride and chop people are trained, which is different from ordinary horse riding. Moreover, the saddle and horse hooves are also regularly maintained by cobblers and blacksmiths in nearby villages, which is very troublesome. If you are a bandit of the size of Liangshan, you may be able to afford it. It would be good to have twenty or thirty horses in an ordinary small village, like the one in TV series... In a village with more than a hundred people, more than a hundred people are riding horses out, which is absolutely nonsense. If you have such professional operational ability, just switch to a career and become a horse dealer. It's easier to be a profit than being a bandit.
It's going far away... Let's go back to the topic.
In Shen, Ma Si took the horse riding team to the entrance of the village first. At first glance, he saw no one, and there was not even a wisp of smoke in the village.
Seeing such an abnormal scene, Ma Si naturally wondered: "Ha... Is this a game of empty city with me?"
Ma Si is not Sima Yi. He would not turn around and run away because he thought too much. He just waited for a while at the entrance of the village. After more than 20 people walking behind arrived, he ordered five minions to enter the village to explore the way.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content below! Those are five bandits, not regular troops. When bandits execute orders, they have to depend on the situation... They also understand in their hearts that if there is an ambush in the village, they will be cannon fodder, and they will die in vain if they die. So they are very cautious in exploring the way, which can be said to be timid and delayed.
After about one stick of incense (about half an hour), these five goods were still wandering around the entrance of the village, and they only broke into the door and checked about ten rooms.
Ma Si was a little tired when he sat on the horse, and finally said impatiently: "Okay! Stop searching! Let me go into the village, and you will grab whatever you see! Whoever grabs more points will get more!"
As soon as this statement came out, everyone, especially the five who had just entered the village, rushed into the village like suddenly injected chicken blood and began to plunder wildly.
The robbery lasted for a long time, and these guys almost emptyed the village's food and valuable things that the people's homes had already left the horses except for the village leader Ma Si, because the backs of the nineteen horses were tied up with heavy goods... The bandits also smiled satisfied on their faces. Even the two minions who were scared away by Sun Yixie yesterday had forgotten their original purpose today.
Ma Si thought to himself: "Maybe the people in this village were scared, so they all ran to the mountains to hide in order to save their lives, and felt that if we robbed money and food, we would not do anything to them anymore."
After reaching this conclusion, he no longer cared about this "empty city plan".
Unexpectedly, at this moment...
"Zhaimaster-Master-" a roar came suddenly from the road outside the village.
Soon, a bandit with a dusty face and scorched clothes all over his body rolled and crawled to Ma Si, and said in a crying voice: "Master! No! We... our village has been taken away! Go back and take a look!"
"What?" Ma Si was shocked when he heard this, and then became angry and shouted, "What's going on?"
"Ha...ha..." The minion was also anxious. He gasped for a few breaths and said again, "You... Not long after you left, a man named Sun Yixi and a man named Huang Donglai came to the gate of the village, shouting to take your life... Seeing that there were only two of them, the brothers opened the gate of the village and wanted to tie them up and hand them to you to cut them into pieces. Who knew that these two were very good at martial arts. The brothers were no match for the opponent, and they were dead and injured. They set fire in the village. The young man tried his best to escape and report to you..."
"It's outrageous!" Before the minion could finish his words, Ma Si shouted at the people around him and ordered, "Little ones! Come back to the village with me quickly! Stay the things right away first and come to pick them up later!"
The bandits were really obedient this time because they were really anxious... The hometown was replaced by someone, how can they not be anxious? I won’t say the little bit of hiding is gone, if the counterfeit village is burned, where will they go?
So Ma Si took the lead, rushed forward, rushed towards the mountain village.
The remaining forty or so bandits threw the things they had just robbed on horseback or on the ground, and hurriedly started running back along the road.
The two places were not close or far away. After a while, Ma Si walked for a while, he saw thick smoke rising in the sky ahead. He suddenly became angry and became brave, thinking that he would never let the Huang and Sun go away.
However, when he rushed back to the mountain village, he found that... this so-called "fire" was just a pile of firewood, which was set up in the middle of the village and burned in concentrated fire. The village walls and houses of the mountain village did not catch fire at all.
He walked closer and saw that there were ten corpses lying on the ground inside the village gate, all of which were his subordinates.
At this moment, a thought flashed through his mind: "I only left ten people in the village, and the one who came to report just now was... terrible!"
Ma Si knew he was trapped, so he quickly turned his head and ran back towards Nanyuan Village...
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Today's "change family" plan was discussed and thought out by Huang Donglai and Sun Yixie.
First of all, as early as this morning, when the bandits were still sleeping in, the villagers of Nanyuan Village had already left the village collectively.
The elderly, weak, women and children in the village hid in the mountains under the organization of the village chief, and the remaining forty or fifty peasants carried the "poison bombs" and weapons prepared yesterday, and followed Sun and Huang and the others to the necessary path for the bandits.
During the Shen period, when two groups of bandits passed through the road one after another, the villagers hid in the mountains and forests and watched without moving their troops.
After all the bandits passed, Sun and Huang took more than a dozen more powerful villagers to go to Zuoma Village.
With Huang Donglai's light skills, it is easy to climb the uneven wall of Zhumazhai, and the ten bandits guarding the village were only two of them watching over the door. Even if they watched Huang Donglai climb up the wall, they could not stop him.
After entering the village, Huang Donglai made four minions with three punches and two kicks. Seeing this, the remaining six knelt down and surrendered with tact. Then, Huang Donglai ordered them to open the village gate.
Sun Yixie and the dozen villagers entered one after another. The villagers who were suffering and deeply hatred saw that the enemies were kneeling on the ground and were buried. At that time, they rushed up like crazy and beat the bandits who had already lost their weapons to death.
Sun and Huang did not stop these villagers - they were never a saint, and they knew they were not qualified to stop them.
When the villagers were relieved, Sun Yixie directed them to collect some firewood from the mountain village (the bandits had to catch fire and cook every day), and lit the fire, creating the illusion of "the village was burned".
Huang Donglai went to find a suit of the bandits, and went to the stove to "put a little makeup" with pot ash and firewood, and then went to "report to the village leader".
Shortly after he left, Sun Yixie took the villagers out of the village, returned to the previous ambush, met with other villagers, and prepared to move forward to the next step...
After they waited for a while, Ma Si came over alone.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! Sun Yixie was very patient. He saw that there was only Ma Si, so he decided to let him go first, wait and take a look.
After a while, they finally waited for the more than forty walking bandits. When these people... came here, they had already seen the thick smoke in the sky, so they were all anxious and panting. Moreover, because they had consumed a lot of energy to carry things while robbing in the village before, they were already at the end of their strength.
Seeing that the time was ripe, Sun Yixie gave an order, and the villagers hiding on both sides of the road suddenly rushed out and threw dozens of "poison bombs" prepared by Huang Donglai to teach them to the crowd.
The bandits were just running forward and had no time to pay attention to the situation on both sides. Therefore, they were startled by the sudden attacks in the forest. Many of them were unstable and fell to the ground. Then they tripped the people behind them and stepped on each other... Forty people were in a mess in a blink of an eye.
The villagers all covered their faces with red cloth of uniform color, tied the poison powder bags made of dog skin plaster and thin ropes, wrapped in "Huang's unique formula" and threw them into the middle of the bandits. For a moment, they coughed and screamed endlessly. The bandits inhaled the poison powder and fell to the ground on the spot. Some of their eyes were covered with poison dust, and they burst into tears. In a hurry, they took the knife in their hands and chopped at their companions around them...
When the poisonous powder gradually dissipated, nearly thirty of the more than 40 bandits had fallen to the ground or were injured. The rest were panicked. Looking at the masked people around them, they thought they had been robbed.
At this time, Sun Yixiu picked up the trident and shouted: "Kill with me!"
After he drank, the morale of the farmers was greatly boosted. They rushed from both sides of the road with various long weapons (mainly farm tools), venting the hatred and anger accumulated over the years on these bandits who had already become defeated.
When they were about to kill, they washed their faces in the village. For safety reasons (who were afraid that their own people who were red-eyed and were killed), Huang Donglai, who also changed his clothes, also arrived.
Huang Donglai's joining completely wiped out the hope of those bandits' counterattack.
Soon, these Zoumazhai bandits who had been rampant in the Baijiling area for many years were wiped out here.
Chapter completed!